[eruci]

His spokesperson said Londoners only wanted to see public money being paid to companies that “share the values of our city”.

I wander if they'd care to further elaborate on that.

[b40d-48b2-979e]

Not paying the people helping bomb children in Gaza and Iran is a good start.

[eruci]

is that so?

[herrherrmann]

Yes.

[spacedcowboy]

Palantir is effectively a US spy company, and let's face it, even Iran have a better international rep than the US right now.

He's just reading the room - no-one wants to be associated with the current US regime, and given Trump's specific dislike of him (you know, because he's not white), he probably doesn't seem to see much reason to beat about the bush.

The US has proven to be a bad international partner, they flout international law, they engage in piracy, their political system is prone to rapid and catastrophic change, and the people there seem to be just fine with electing a narcissistic fraudulent rapist and felon as president. Twice.

Not just "No" but "Hell, No!"

[ITT: Watch the butt-hurt USAsians downvote because they're not used to someone telling it as it is about the USA]

[eruci]

Saying Iran has a better international reputation than the United States is a massive stretch, but yes, this is emotional decision making.

[spacedcowboy]

humans aren't robots. When the leader of a country is an absolute arse, and when the people of said country don't seem to care, the decision to revile them, to actively pursue relationships with other countries may in fact be "emotional" but no less correct for being so.

"Emotional" doesn't mean "wrong". If the entire world is making an "emotional" decision to spurn you, it means you done fucked up bad.

[spacedcowboy]

Its really not a stretch. Not even slightly. That's just how low the US has sunk in international rating.

[oliwarner]

Iran just killed thousands of protesters. As far as the US has fallen, they're not quite there yet.

[hackable_sand]

Every decision is an emotional decision

[eruci]

Every emotional decision is a decision.

[shimman]

What realm of reality do you live in because the United States is a massive force of evil. Invading nations, ignoring international law, starting illegal blockades, bombing school children, bombing first responders, starving children, helping enable a genocide.

The idea that Iran has a worse international reputation is laughable. The US is literally causing a global recession, along with an energy crunch, and likely manmade induced famine that will ruin the lives of 10s of millions of people; or do none of these lives matter because they have the wrong shade of melatonin?

Whatever goodwill the US built from WW2 has been thoroughly destroyed.

I wish I could say we deserve the imperial boomerang but the only people that will continue to suffer, both domestically and abroad, will be innocent civilians while the elites (who are the only beneficiaries of US imperialism) go unpunished.

And this is strictly talking about political governance, US corporations are another layer of evil as well.

[eruci]

I'd ask the same question of you (except all the emotional stuff)

[shimman]

If you can't get emotional over the needless deaths of innocent school children, something is clearly wrong with you.

[eruci]

you get emotional over one specific type of propaganda